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by Stendhal (Author), Richard Howard (Translator) "On 15 May 1796, General Bonaparte made his entry into Milan at the head of the youthful army which had just crossed the bridge at..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Picador; New edition edition (21 Jun 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330483978
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330483971
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 842,056 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'The Charterhouse of Parma often contains a whole book in a single page... If is a masterpiece' Balzac 'What you find so much of in this novel - and in this new translation more than ever before - is, in a word, life' New York Times


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Balzac considered it the most important French novel of his time. Gide later deemed it the greatest of all French novels, and Henry James judged it to be a masterpiece. Now, in a major literary event, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and distinguished translator Richard Howard presents a new rendition of Stendhal's epic tale of romance, adventure and court intrigue set in early nineteenth-century Italy. The Charterhouse of Parma chronicles the exploits of Fabrizio del Dongo, an ardent young aristocrat who joins Napoleon's army just before the Battle of Waterloo. Yet perhaps the novel's most unforgettable characters are the hero's beautiful aunt, the alluring Duchess of Sanseverina, and her lover, Count Mosca, who plot to further Fabrizio's political career at the treacherous court of Parma. A sweeping story that illuminates an entire epoch of European history.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Parma Chameleon, 22 April 2005
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This book sits in my top ten novels of all time, next to the likes of Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Middlemarch, Crime and Punishment, The Karamazov Brothers, and of course the Red and the Black.

Why? Like the other authors of this select crowd, there's nothing about human behaviour Stendhal didn't understand. Dostoevsky will tell you all about the seamier side of life, Stendhal tells you about love - love in all its glory, fragility and pain - and he tells you about it as no one else can, with an empathy of startling depth. He wrote it in only about six weeks, too - not bad for a masterpiece of this calibre. Read the Red and the Black and On Love too, if you like this.

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1.0 out of 5 stars unreadable translation, 18 April 2008
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I had a go at this classic because it's Alfred Brendel's favourite novel. All I can say is he can't have read this new translation by John Sturrock. It's atrocious -- unbelievably clunky. I got to p. 67 before giving up.
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